UGLY scars mar the face of an innocent clubber after these blonde thugs launched a violent dancefloor attack.

Amy Steel and her friends had paid more than £1,000 to celebrate a pal’s birthday in the VIP lounge at Newcastle’s Tup Tup Palace, one of their favourite nightclubs in the country.

But instead of happy memories of a perfect night out, Amy, 22, went home with her face permanently scarred, and frightened to return to the city she once loved, after she was smashed in her face with a shoe.

Today, as police release CCTV pictures of three women they want to speak to about the attack, the graduate has told the Chronicle of her nightmare.

She said: “It was just so scary. It just scares me that girls are capable of doing that.”

Amy and a group of friends had travelled to Newcastle from their Cheshire home-town for the birthday night out, on Bank Holiday Monday, August 29.

The group of around 15 booked a table in Tup Tup Palace, in the city centre.

Sometime between 1.30am and 2.30am Amy and two other friends decided to leave the VIP area and head to the main dancefloor – and it was here they ran into the trio of attack suspects.

“Some girls started pushing into us but we just ignored them at first,” said Amy. “We were still dancing and then one of my friends got a drink poured on her.

“She said something to the girls and then it all kicked off.

“I felt something hit the back of my head, and when I turned around I was hit twice in the face and I was dragged to the floor.” And as club doormen ran to her aid, Amy realised there was blood gushing from the open wounds on her face.

“I grabbed my face and realised it was bleeding. I was covered in blood and I was hysterical and panicking,” she said. “It was just horrendous.”

After first aiders at Tup Tup realised Amy’s wounds were too serious for them to treat she was taken to hospital where medics used five stitches to close a deep cup above her eye.

Her mouth was also cut open and she had other gashes and bruises on her face.

“I was so lucky,” she said. “If it had hit one centimetre lower it would have been in my eye.”

Det Cons Andy Kelsall, of Northumbria Police’s Newcastle Central CID, is now urging the public to help trace the violent clubbers.

He said: “We’re continuing to investigate this assault, which left a woman with an injury to her face which required hospital treatment.”

Meanwhile another reveller has been attacked in Tup Tup Palace.

Police were called to the club at around 3.20am yesterday after a 30-year-old man from Newcastle was found with head injuries.

He was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary by ambulance. His injuries are not thought to be serious.

Two men, both aged 20, have been arrested on suspicion of assault and are helping police with their inquiries.

Witnesses to either attack or anyone who recognises the girls pictured should call police on 0345 604 3043 ext 69191.

:: This story has been updated after the club said Amy was attacked with a shoe, not a glass.